skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In real life its so much more complicated than that. Because choosing to "send ship now" will result in huge amounts of progress in overcoming obstacles you could not have known about until you actual began the project.

It seems like the answer is always send out a test ship as fast as possible, knowing that it will absolutely be overtaken by a ship with more engines AND the knowledge gain from the first ship.
I have had a bad experience with battery life on my pair.

Context: during the day I use a good desktop DAC/amplifier hooked up to my laptop/desktop and a good quality wired set of headphones, but in the evening when I want to get a break from the computer I use my phone and a Bluetooth headphone.

I use either a Drop Panda or my AirPods Max. Both are very convenient. I’ll listen happily for 2-3 hours in the evening in comfort. I find myself having to charge the Airpods Max every other day, it seems to me like it drains very quickly even when it’s in the case. The panda switches off properly and is always ready to go, I can go a week without charging it with this usage pattern.

When I’ve gone to reach for the Max it’s always very low on battery or dead, even if it’s had very little usage after a charge a day or so before.

If it powered off properly I’d be a lot happier
I think this is catering to a specific audience who is not me :) I actually find that the complexity of self hosting is the interesting part.

I did this to learn stuff. Seeing as I have little to say, my blog site is more of a technical playground than a valuable store of content.

I omitted that between the EC2 version and this current version, I built a really convoluted version with an ALB, Aurora, always-on ECS etc. That came to $80 a month. So then that motivated me to go the other way with the super cheap option.
While I think it's BS that Google just delete things like this (YouTube is the other classic example). I also wonder what anyone expects when the DCMA exists and people demand Google start censoring apps?

At the very least, incorrect (frivolous) DCMAs need to lead to huge payouts for the victims.
You've always been at risk of other road users, but that is well understood when you get in a car and drive somewhere.

What's new, and on top of that risk, and not well understood is the risk due to drivers mis-using a half-baked feature named "autopilot" as if it's actually an autopilot, because Musk insists that it works when it clearly does not always work.
Another company that is doing 10Gbit/s. Considering a single Starlink satellite will have 4 laser links plus has a total radio bandwidth of about 20Gbit/s, this is sufficient. https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/en7dtx/comment/fd...

...however, this is nowhere near any fundamental limit on optical transmission. SpaceX is operating around 20-40GHz radios, and let’s just say a bandwidth 1% of the frequency with a SNR of 1, giving them a bit rate per channel of 200-400Megabits/s. The same calculation with near IR optical (which is optimistic obviously) gives 3 Petahertz frequency, 30THz bandwidth, and 30terabits/s/channel. So optical is nowhere near any kind of fundamental limit, unlike radio which needs many channels (ie phased array, MIMO, spatial multiplexing generally, etc) to saturate the bandwidth of the satellite bus.

(Also, note that broadband users have a capacity factor of like 1-2%, so on average 20Gbps can give service to like 10,000 subscribers per viewable satellite using 100Mbps peak service.)
It actually will just continue to mutate and start reinfecting people as immunity wanes.
> Would they prefer it enough to opt into that tracking and targeting?

I believe a a sizable portion would. They like the targeted offers and ads. Maybe because they enjoy the feel of something being catered to them, maybe because they are addicted to shopping/consumerists. IDK.

> If users had to go to a setting to turn on targeted ads, what percentage of them do you think would do it? I suspect it would be pretty low. I wonder if most people would even notice that the setting had been turned off?

I think this is a really good question. The power of opt-in vs. opt-out, as you noted.

However, I don't know if we can conclude whether they value it or not solely from their willingness to opt-in. We really have to account for how the ability to opt-in is exposed. If we showed it on every size (akin to the cookie accept craze of today), we'd see a lot of people opt-in. If it were hidden in a chrome settings, far less just because that's mentally off limits for many, and easily forgettable.

I totally agree with you on somewhat sinister motivation of opt-out over opt-out patterns.
Introducing Watchbird, a community-based approach to misinformation (heh).

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Similar services actually exist, but you know, one could always create a new one aimed at "fact checking" the fact checkers.

I guess my point is, you can't solve this problem with even more crowd bullshit. It needs to be done at a fundamental level, preferably by governments in school.

Afaik, there's still zero official classes/courses/lessons/whatever in most schools that would teach you to not trust everything you read and triple check everything yourself before believing anything.

Plus, this is pretty prone to abuse. Individuals are inherently dangerous, and crowds even more so. Someone doesn't like person X, so they "fact check" his tweets. Others see this coming from a "reputable" poster and jump on the bandwagon.

Seen it so many times it got old. Experimented with it myself. A post on Reddit (same content) that gets 8-12 fake upvotes in the first 30 minutes after being posted is infinitely more likely to start getting upvoted by hundreds of real users and get to the subreddit's hot front page than a post that got 0-3 upvotes, for example.

I was interested in Reddit's voting system and learned some interesting stuff. They're really smart about it, you can't just have multiple accounts and some proxies/VPNs and go at it like in the good old days. Votes are going to be ignored unless you know what you're doing. Probably not news for anyone in the industry, but I found it interesting.
The Year of Grinding Teeth
Interesting article, but I don't think that applies to TV media. People don't share their content on TV, it is very easy for TV censors to say "no female nipple on screen, period". For sure this becomes a problem on social media where there are plenty of reasons to share pictures with nudity (arts, breast feeding, etc), but not for movies/tv shows.
This is because Germany wanted Gutenberg to restrict access to most of their collection, which is not in the public domain in Germany. Gutenberg instead decided to block Germany rather than comply with copyright law.
Also sounds like the prescription is not too bad. Those of us with -5 and under do not really have a choice not to wear corrective lenses :)
> In an honest world, this would be one giant step to finally getting at the truth. But this isn’t an honest world, is it?

Not to mention that in an honest wold, why would you even need something like this?

You don't need it in an honest world, and it will end up being worse than nothing in a dishonest world. It doesn't seem like a good idea in any scenario.
Never underestimate the force of a raised eyebrow.
Road users aren't beta-testers. Especially the ones who didn't sign up for it and buy a Tesla.
Once a proposition is falsified a rational community would rejected it.

Once your community or protocol "philosophically" rejects checksums it is only a matter of time before your system breaks catastrophically.

This philosophical freedom vs authoritarianism thing you're proposing is a view that is incomplete and small to the point of being false.

The actual underlying question is do you accept that grounded truth exists and are you willing to have a large and nuanced enough view to include all non false propositions and reject all false propositions.
Maybe Google could partner with a company that has lots of experience parsing language and deriving intent/context? /s
The automated system has too much control
The logo may not be a coincidence, but more an expression of Gabe Newell's life focus.
My understanding is that security hub announced glass break detection from day 1. And that feature uses a microphone to listen to glass breaks... so I wasn't surprised. But, I guess that's not obvious to everyone, so they could've put it on the box.

And, I just didn't HN readers to think there was a mic on the thermostat, so I was correcting that.
SpaceX is disgustingly undervalued at $92 billion.

I would pay a 4x multiple to be able to dump my own money in here... sadly, I am not a billionaire, and have no access to this market.
$237B record monthly stablecoin volume, breaking prior record
"January has seen more than $230 billion in on-chain stablecoin volume since the start of the month, according to data collected by The Block.

That figure — $237.2 billion as of January 25 — represents the highest monthly amount of its kind, surpassing December's total of $178.3 billion by 33%."
I had figured the stupidity of Brexit was basically smart for some people because they profited from it, but where is the profit in this and for whom?

This just seems like "hold my beer, give me that gun, I can prove I'm the stupidest" level of stupidity here.
I liked some blockchain / crypto based ideas people were having - like you have to use crypto to even say something is fake or not. A journalist has to "pledge" crypto that a news is not fake and the smart contract releases the amount back based on certain evaluations like if the post was voted as fake or not etc. (I am sure as described there will be holes, but I like the direction it was heading.)
That is a dangerous misunderstanding of evolutionary pressure in viruses.

LONG TERM, less deadly viruses will tend to spread better because the more deadly a virus is, the more it raises stakes for the host population to remove it or prevent it , and the more it can make it apparent who has been infected. Ebola for instance justifies pretty almost any action you can imagine to contain it's spread, where we are still arguing if lockdowns or travel restrictions are the cost appropriate measure with COVID.

If the time of fatality is sufficiently delayed, or the time to implement other countermeasures or recognize the situation has changed is too long, it doesn't help anyone in the short, medium, or potentially even long term - you can have massive fatalities and huge spread.

The 1918 pandemic had multiple waves, with the second in particular having a much higher fatality rate than the first - 10x a typical flu season, which is what we're seeing now. This was almost certainly caused by variants, though lack of data makes it impossible to prove. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu]

A particularly nasty example [https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/science/2020/03/22/how-an-al...]

The more infections, the more likely we'll get more variants, and the more likely we'll get some that cause terrible, terrible problems - and may still be quite infectious.

Long term, will the most terrible ones die out? Very likely. However, smallpox was a scourage on humanity since likely 300 BCE and up until eradication by a massive global effort in 1975, it still had fatality rates around 25-35%. So don't just assume COVID will 'evolve to harmlessness', or if it does that it would happen on a timeframe convenient for society [https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/history/history.html]
A virus may become less deadly. There is no guarantee. It depends on what evolutionary options are available and what pressures are selecting mutations.

Pre-symptomatic infectiousness has about the same selection pressure as low mortality rate IMO. Low risk viruses circulate well because people don’t care about transmission very much. High risk infections cause people to take precaution and thus eliminates those stains. SARS-COV-1 and MERS were that way.

But pre-symptomatic infectiousness (SARS-COV-2) makes this calculus immaterial for most people; they transmit it without knowledge. This reduces the pressure on high mortality / morbidity strains / variants.
A strain that spreads more while not being significantly less deadly is much scarier than a more deadly strain that spreads less. Do the math if you don't believe me.
It was recommended in a thread earlier today which often prompts other users at their luck at reaching the front page with a link submission.

I haven’t read his book, but his LinkedIn posts used to pop up on my feed until I blocked him because he really sounded superficial.

I was quite surprised to see it recommended here. Maybe I should give it a look
Not sure what you're claiming, but SPM and stroke length isn't a measure of how much work you are doing. For instance, you could have the exact same SPM, stroke length, and damper settings, and row either a 3:00 or a 2:00 500m time.
I'm unaware of ANY certified piston aircraft that don't use leaded fuel by default.

Most fuel farms at airports sell 100 octane leaded fuel by default. It is normally the odd exception that sells unleaded fuel.

The piston engine seaplanes will be using leaded fuel (as will any piston powered small plane with the exception of a few homebuilts and trainers). The turbine ones use regular Jet A.
It most likely jumped the species barrier.
the double standard is real

also the downvotes for not toeing the blue team line are strong
> I think you'll have to make "can do" more precise for this question to have a meaningful answer. All mentioned languages are Turing complete and thus equivalent on that level.

I actually agree, I was just arguing with the point of the above comment which implicated you can't do lots of things in Rust that you can in C++. I don't know what the author was referring to, so I can't be more specific.

> I can wrap a file in a ByteBuffer in java and the JVM will (make a best effort to) perform native I/O on that. Does that pass as "access raw memory"?

I was referring to directly accessing the memory "owned" by local variables (the stack), the bytecode of the program itself (on von Neumann architecture), etc. It was a counterpoint in that implication that every other language (akin to publishing systems) had no limitations where Rust had. But I don't think that's actually a problem as (if that's ever needed) you can FFI to another language that can do that stuff and (as you said) all those languages are turing complete.

Sorry if it sounded like I was attacking Java & Python, for most applications I don't think the "runtime" limitation isn't a problem and comparing them to facebook is still hyperbolic.
In my limited experience, taxis drivers know the routes and where to go. It's obvious they drive a lot, but they often drive aggresively. Uber drivers on the other hand are safer drivers, but I find they never listen to the GPS and I'm always reminding them of the upcoming highway exit they are about to miss.
"When the founders look back at their life and see "litter the internet with garbage" as their biggest accomplishment, I wonder if the money will be worth it."
Vindictive and petty conservatives embarrassing themselves and their entire country.

That's new.
We host our own gitlab runners. It gives us more punch for less € and it was relatively easy to set up and is easy to maintain/upgrade.
We live in an imperfect world with many constraints and trade-offs. Why did you have to emigrate, while others were already born into lucky countries? Why are some people denied the right to emigrate?

Life is various shades of unfair and we're more likely to make a better world if we optimize for well being rather than fairness (of which there are multiple competing and contradictory definitions).
I wonder if they will eventually offer network access from orbit. Ship a turnkey module with a 10G ethernet port out the back...that'd have to be worth a couple million dollars a year.
Before newer tools automated the process by tracking motion of a target, folks wouldn't have to adjust them frame by frame per se but would instead annotate the subtitle script with keyframe times and positions. The video player would know to interpolate between those annotations.
Taboola and Outbrain were nearly the same company. A merger announced in 2019 fell through. Invalidating my "Save a match with this one weird trick!" joke.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/business/media/online-adv...

(I'd not read the update in the Axios article initially, apologies, and edited.)
Groups search for consensus, individuals for truth. Without consensus groups fracture. Without truth we're destined for the next dark age.
I wonder what would be the implications for being able to develop and deliver RNA vaccines on this shorter, more regular timeline? Specifically, does the infrastructure required to accomplish this goal also bring other vaccines or treatments in the realm of feasibility?
Mozilla Announces “Open Web Docs” Following Last Year's Layoffs
WTF how the story starts :D
I wonder, why people suddenly forgot that adblockers are a thing?
We are using a monorepo with inside 20-30 services and 3-6 native apps (lost the exact count).
We have a folder for each service or reusable library.
/android (a native android app wrapping the webpapp)
/app (SPA webapp)
/api (REST apis)
/blog
/docs
/graphql
/ios (a native iOS app wrapping the webpapp)
/www (landing pages)
One tip I can give you is to flat the structure and avoid nesting as much as possible.
For example might be better to place the custom_plugins in the root rather than inside company_name_cms_name.
Few folders that I believe are not necessary are things like /src (everything is freaking source code).
It's better to have one more folder at the root where is visible by scrolling the Project Tree than having a nested folder than is not visible until the parent folder is expanded.
>Pods communicate directly with one another on their pod IP addresses with MPI via SSH, not service endpoints.

this is super interesting. They are using mpi on kubernetes for their AI training i suppose.

So they are not using anything like kubeflow. Any idea which framework this is ?

The state of AI training on kubernetes is not so hot. And this would be a good learning. There is Ray Distributed today that claims a better performance (as well as a better developer experience) than OpenMPI - https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi18-moritz.pdf

wonder why the choices were made as such
> On the one hand, I certainly struggle to see how more crowds will improve upon what is fundamentally a problem with crowds to begin with.

When you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

I believe that the social networks have built technologies that probably can't actually be made to work in a socially beneficial way, since they're utterly dependent on crowdsourcing and automation for economic reasons, but those tools aren't actually up the the problems they face.
Devil's advocate - couldn't it have the opposite effect as well for cohesion? In absense of facts speculation can run rampant and the worst assumed. There is a difference between knowing someone is an asshole and thinking they might be a pedophile. Paranoia aside human heurestics can get it very wrong - the teens with the new dark music are evil criminals while the pastor is trustworthy except the teens are lawful and open minded towards things which don't harm others but have morbid tastes. Meanwhile the pastor is a serial sex offender.
Whilst I agree - and fervently hope we won't have to live in such a world - I thought the same about the API copyrightability and that one is not exactly going the reasonable way at the moment.

H&K has an US trademark consisting of just "MP5" in relation to a ton of things (though not video games!) so they could at least try make a case out of it not being purely nominative use and tie AB in court, if they wished. It would be PR suicide, but still, not the most stupid thing they have done.
Engineering a More Productive Tomato
> They were the champions of the open web for a long time. What happened?

It was a con.
Sure, but what about showing you ads for WhatsApp when you’re searching for Signal?

Where does contextual advertising/influencing switch from being helpful to being gaslighting?
https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/
I used my plastic human brain to get used to the key placement. Now I can type quicker than on a smartphone. It's all in your head, man.
I don't see how it can be new. When I lived some years in Brazil (around 1999-2001), and you could buy at a specific street in Sao Paulo, a CD with all the taxes information from every brazilian citizen.
Pain-free microneedle patch could test for antibodies in fluid between cells
The innevitable conclusion to this (after plenty of willy waggling and insisting that Brexit meant taking back sovereignty whilst also now inisting the EU doesn't have soveriegnty) is that you can cover the diplomats as representatives from their home countries. So Joao Vale de Almeida will just be a Portugese diplomat serving in his role in the EU.
Has anyone here given this a try: https://gettingstronger.org/2010/07/improve-eyesight-and-thr...

https://gettingstronger.org/2014/08/myopia-a-modern-yet-reve...

It claims that myopia can be cured, just like muscles can be made stronger in a gym.
I was about to say I've seen this somewhere.

Wow.
Speaking strictly for myself... this is basically why, despite having grown up in a metric country and technically living in one (Canada) I still sometimes use inch, foot, ounce and sometimes even gallons for rough estimates. If the unit fits the quantity, the uncertainty is implied as in "he was about six feet tall" or "add a couple of inches".
What kind of uncomfortable data are you talking about that isn't being published?
I thought it was an obscure regionalism for a refrigerator... that definition makes far more sense grammatically.
I don't believe this is correct. These aren't like chartered jets.

I've taken seaplane flights around the Northwest and the folks on the flights tend to be middle-class vacationers and business commuters, much like you'd see on any other commercial flight.
For years and years, I've been surrounded by factoids about research into habit formation. Maintain an activity for 21 days, and then you'll feel compelled to keep it going! Make a plan for your activity, and then you'll stick with it! Visualize!

A lot of this kind of click-generating blog content takes a single paper and then dramatizes its findings. Bonus points for phrases like "researchers have discovered" and "scientifically proven."

Speaking from experience, motivation, judgment, and decision-making are easy fields to publish in. Experimental psychology labs have a relatively simple time getting and publishing results. Make a slight adjustment to an experimental protocol, recruit 30-60 psych undergraduates (many programs even make participation mandatory or offer extra credit for it), and voila, a paper.

As a result, many labs are publishing constantly just to survive. And very few experiments make a goal of following up with their participants weeks or months later. But that kind of stability is exactly what you want in your healthy habits!

Personally, I was surprised and disappointed to find that activities that had entered my routine had never actually become a habit. They were just a routine. When the routine changed, the "habit" disappeared. Before last year, my daily schedule included an hour at the gym after work. I maintained a consistent pattern for several years. After gyms closed, I just stopped going and didn't feel like anything was amiss.

Some time in the past year, I bought some simple home exercise equipment, such as a door-mounted pull-up bar and some adjustable barbells. I stuck to a consistent routine for two months. I have an entire notebook with pages filled with hashmarks in sets of five, counting sets of exercises. And then I also just stopped, for no apparent reason, and felt no urge to continue.
Amazon: Fact of the Day (Book)